Wednesday Spill: The “Government Cheese” Fake New Yorker Cover; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The Issue of May 18, 1935

Government Cheese’s Fake New Yorker Cover My New Yorker colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly recently noticed a New Yorker magazine shown for a second (maybe a second-and-a-half) in the very first episode of the Apple TV series, “Government Cheese.” I took a screenshot of the moment the magazine appears, turned the image upside down, and sharpened it a little. It’s

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Tuesday Spill: Now That’s A Cover!

Now That’s A Cover! One of the delights of looking through the coffee table book, The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker (Knopf, 1989) is discovering new favorite covers, or being reminded of covers I’ve always loved. The above, by Adolph Kronenberg is in the latter category. It’s a wowzer — art that is the city, bringing the

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